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Immigration raids and threats have undermined efforts to prevent and detect bird flu infections among farmworkers, ...
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has issued a bird flu warning after 19 birds were found to have died from the disease, and the H5N1 variant has been found on both sides of the Irish border ...
The Trump Administration's zeal for rounding up and deporting those migrants is making efforts to combat bird flu harder as those workers now avoid outsiders.
Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains tend to infect birds. But the potential for influenza A viruses that ...
The most common way to detect bird flu involves swabbing potentially contaminated sites and sequencing the DNA that’s been ...
Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...
This isn’t just an animal health crisis — it’s a risk to public health. When animals consume foods containing live virus, ...
"What we're hoping is that we can take a bite out of that next pandemic, which you know is gonna come, whether it's bird flu or whether it's something we don't know yet, it will come," Brenner said.
Knowable Magazine answers questions about how dangerous bird flu is, where it came from, and what key events paved the way ...
Bird flu is already considered a pandemic among animals. It has infected hundreds of bird species and small mammals. Now, ...
Memories of COVID-19 are fading. For some people—frontliners and those who lost their loved ones—the impact still lingers.